Amazon Redshift Distribution Styles

Amazon Redshift is a cloud-native data warehouse from AWS. It has a Massively Parallel Processing framework that automatically distributes data and the query load across every node available in a cluster. This lesson explains how Redshift distributes table data, how keys are used inside tables, and the importance of distribution styles.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the key concepts of data distribution
• Learn about the three types of distribution styles
• Understand the difference between distribution keys and sort keys

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for database administrators or anyone who wants to enhance their knowledge of Amazon Redshift.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of Amazon Redshift.